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Jan 6 2006, 08:55 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
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WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 6 Jan 06 Washington, DC DEEP SPACE CLIMATE OBSERVATORY KILLED. http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/index.html -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jan 7 2006, 12:26 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 242 Joined: 21-December 04 Member No.: 127 |
Repeat After Me:
TRIANA MUST FLY ON SHUTTLE There is NO way given the state of the fleet that the scientific returns of the mission justify a shuttle flight under the post-Columbia, post-RTF situation. That's not to say the individual instruments shouldn't fly...but as long as they were on this platform, they were going to be doing nothing but provide a continuous view of a (cough) University of Maryland clean room. I'm a heck of a lot more agitated about the LANDSAT disaster than this mercy killing. I'm sorry, but Bob Park is letting his partisanship get in the way of his reason. |
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Jan 7 2006, 02:53 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
QUOTE (gpurcell @ Jan 6 2006, 07:26 PM) Repeat After Me: TRIANA MUST FLY ON SHUTTLE According to this document, it is apparently illegal to fly Triana on the Space Shuttle: http://oig.nasa.gov/old/inspections_assessments/g-99-013.pdf But I agree with those who say that the satellite has real scientific and educational merit and having it sit in a warehouse collecting dust is a waste. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jan 7 2006, 03:25 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 242 Joined: 21-December 04 Member No.: 127 |
You misunderstand that document. That is the OIG report designed to highlight the false accounting NASA was engaged in, not a finding of law. In essence, Gore was trying to commandeer a launch of the Shuttle for a campaign event in the 2000 election.
If you actually READ the report, you'll see what a boondoggle this thing was from the beginning. Check out Table 4, in particular. In any event, Triana AS BUILT was designed to fly on Shuttle, in part to maximize the PR value to Gore from the mission. (Ah, the days of the "All Woman Crew" and Triana...magical!) NASA has far, far, FAR better things to use $150 million on than Gore's vanity satellite. |
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